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The Stranger brought together a triumvirate of stellar pre-war Hollywood actors. Edward G. Robinson gained fame as Rico in the movie Little Caesar. So famous was this movie and Robinson’s performance that the authors of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act purposely made the title read RICO in reference to the character Robinson portrayed. Robinson, a man with a great career is known to most people today for his last movie, Soylent Green, which is better forgotten.

Loretta Young was lovely, but not in a “bombshell” manner. She was a competent actress with a great fashion sense that kept her forever in work and allowed a successful transition to television.

It is the story of four schoolboys, who come upon evidence of skullduggery and work together to stop a murder. The lads are a mischievous gang who are always cooking up some scheme. Dion Pride, yup, son of country music legend Charlie Pride, is Specks. Vincent Spano plays Foster. Diminutive Greg Hodges is Homer and Jeff Nicholson plays Billy Ray, always in cowboy hat.

Dahmer (2002) is, at first glance, a fairly run-of-the-mill bad guy biopic, tracing the exploits of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer from late teenagerhood to just before his arrest, for a smorgasbord of crimes, at age 31. Jumping back and forth between the past and the present, the film fills in Dahmer’s personal history through frequent flashbacks, and paints a picture of him that turns out to be surprisingly—almost uncomfortably—compassionate. However, the flashbacks give the film a disjointed quality that makes it less effective as a thriller (or a horror film) than many of the more infamous serial-killer epics, such as those comprising the Silence of the Lambs oeuvre.

If you were looking for a strong woman from the Twentieth Century, Hedy Lamarr was your gal. Held prisoner by her spouse in a castle, she escaped husband and native Austria by convincing him to allow her to attend a party with all of her valuable jewelry. With the help of the maid, her husband was drugged and she escaped the country with some assets, not the least of which was her mind.

In A Matter of Taste (French, Une affaire de goût) Frédéric Delamont (Bernard Giraudeau) is a cool customer. Cool is not the word. He is cold, as in coldly calculating. This does not mean he is a cold fish. He can be affable and certainly charms the man he hires as his food taster. Nicolas Rivière (Jean-Pierre Lorit) is a nobody with excellent taste in food, if little else, and he is hired to insure Delamont is less offended than poisoned.